07-20-08

Combination of two stock photos of a leaf and eye. Used about 8 layers in this one, with several gradients of varying opacity as background. Leaf mapped onto eye using magnetic lasso. Gaussian blur and lighting rendering in a few places. Eye extracted from stock with 50px feather. Random symbols of varying opacity placed using scattered vector brushes.

Eye.

-edit- Using a combination of several photos, completed this image. Stacked feathered layers of the woman lying down, and then blurred/smudged with a 50px rotated feather of a fireplace fire to create the effect. Flower was put there to give the arm something to rest on. That was made using a polygon crop, followed by light rending from a 45 degree angle. Ripple was made from stock water photo, feathered, and placed on top of background layer. Cropped along top edges so that it wouldn't overlap with the purple chick. Random disco ball in top left, and rotated arrows along right side of wall. Scattered, varying opacity brush balls in bottom right. Took quite a bit of work. Total of 11 layers I think.

Doorway

07-19-08

Different revisions of website (using Dreamweaver) over time:

Version 1 of the site was made after one week. Used mostly absolute positioning since I had no clue what I was doing. Didn't know how to do backgrounds yet, and started working with spry bars.

Version 2 was created after 2 weeks. At this point, I was familiarizing with html tables. Also figured out how to do backgrounds. Design was still pretty shitty.

Version 3 is the current main site format, and was created after 3 weeks. Html tables mastered, ignored learning CSS for the moment from being lazy. Started delving into Flash, and incorporated some rudimentary effects in.

Title bar is a section of this. Source file located here.